STATUS

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   2   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
   3   ______________                           $Date: 2002/08/14 11:07:29 $
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   5   DEVELOPMENT STATE
   6
   7     o  OpenSSL 0.9.8:  Under development...
   8     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3: Released on July 30th, 2002
   9     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta2: Released on June 16th, 2002
  10     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta1: Released on June  1st, 2002
  11     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6g: Released on August     9th, 2002
  12     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6f: Released on August     8th, 2002
  13     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6e: Released on July      30th, 2002
  14     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6d: Released on May        9th, 2002
  15     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6c: Released on December  21st, 2001
  16     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
  17     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
  18     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
  19     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
  20     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5:  Released on February  28th, 2000
  21     o  OpenSSL 0.9.4:  Released on August    09th, 1999
  22     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May       29th, 1999
  23     o  OpenSSL 0.9.3:  Released on May       25th, 1999
  24     o  OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March     22th, 1999
  25     o  OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December  23th, 1998
  26
  27   [See also http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html]
  28
  29   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
  30
  31     o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
  32       unless configured with no-asm
  33
  34   AVAILABLE PATCHES
  35
  36     o
  37
  38   IN PROGRESS
  39
  40     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
  41         ASN1 code redesign, butchery, replacement.
  42         OCSP
  43         EVP cipher enhancement.
  44         Enhanced certificate chain verification.
  45         Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
  46         Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
  47         Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
  48     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
  49         ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
  50     o Richard is currently working on:
  51         UI (User Interface)
  52         UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
  53               functionality that is currently missing).
  54         Shared library support for VMS.
  55         Kerberos 5 authentication
  56         Constification
  57         OCSP
  58
  59   NEEDS PATCH
  60
  61     o  0.9.8-dev: COMPLEMENTOFALL and COMPLEMENTOFDEFAULT do not
  62        handle ECCdraft cipher suites correctly.
  63
  64     o  apps/ca.c: "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
  65
  66     o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
  67
  68   OPEN ISSUES
  69
  70     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
  71
  72        1. The config vs. Configure scripts
  73           It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
  74           src/Configure. It confuses.
  75           Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
  76                       script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
  77                       Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
  78                       itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
  79                       which are currently in Configure.
  80
  81     o  Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
  82        for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
  83        Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
  84        solution to be really simple.
  85
  86        Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
  87                compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
  88                into the OpenSSL Configure script.
  89
  90                Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
  91                     which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
  92                     libcrypto)
  93
  94   WISHES
  95
  96     o  Add variants of DH_generate_parameters() and BN_generate_prime() [etc?]
  97        where the callback function can request that the function be aborted.
  98        [Gregory Stark <ghstark@pobox.com>, <rayyang2000@yahoo.com>]
  99
 100     o  SRP in TLS.
 101        [wished by:
 102         Dj <derek@yo.net>, Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>,
 103         Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>]
 104
 105        See http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-00.txt
 106        as well as http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/srp/.
 107
 108        Tom Holroyd tells us there is a SRP patch for OpenSSH at
 109        http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/, that could
 110        be useful.